Core JavaScript tips and tricks: playing with javascript

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Once I needed to get maximum z-index of a DIV to show message at the top of the screen.
Usually, I used arbitrary z-index of 100 of the DIV. But that one is not at the top and it’s hidden by others.
What’s wrong? And unfortunately I found that there are 3 more div-s which have z-index attribute which are greater than 100.
So I changed the z-index to 1000. This time I can see one portion of the DIV.
But 2 more elements get the desired message container DIV overlaid. Frustrating! Huh!
Trial and error method always makes you delay.
I know JavaScript or jQuery may get rid of this hell.
I made an absolute tinny code to find the highest z-index of absolute DIV
to show my shouting box and to make it appear absolutely at the top of all html elements.

”body > *‘ means all tags/elements which are found at first depth of
whether ”body *‘ selects all tags/elements at any depth.
It doesn’t matter what’s is the maximum/highest z-index of an absolute element
rather it matters what’s the maximum/highest z-index of the absolute elements
which are next to in first depth only to show the shouting box on top most strata.

I just want to note that this will not work in all cases. You need to scan the entire DOM to find the top z-index. Maybe if you control all of the HTML/CSS on the page, then you can make sure that absolute elements are directly under the body tag but if you don’t (say you are showing a third party ad), then you will need to scan the whole DOM.

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